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The Cross and Gendercide is without hesitation among (if not the) most convicting, thought-provoking, well-researched, biblically-grounded, and empowering text on the church’s responsibilities toward women that I have read.

Gerhardt's careful and detailed scholarly work demands attention from the proud, haughty, and triumphant gospel-preaching Christian churches who have not yet come to terms both with their real, interpersonal, and political collusion in gendercide.

Given the global nature of violence against women, the reality of the fractured state of Christendom and the implicit misogyny of complementarian Christianity, Gerhardt’s theological response to gendercide seems naively hopeful.

Theology can be either a means of oppression and injustice or a critique of injustice in the service of liberation and in proclamation of the gospel of Jesus. Reflecting on Gerhadt's book, it’s easy to see the better choice.